Category: Farms

  • Brookfield buys £1.75bn stake in Orsted’s UK offshore wind farms

    Brookfield, headed by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney, has acquired a 12.45% stake in four UK offshore wind farms owned by Ørsted for £1.75 billion ($2.3 billion). This landmark deal includes the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, located 55 miles off the Yorkshire coast with a…

  • Victory Farms plans Sh750m expansion of Lake Victoria fish business

    Aquaculture company Victory Farms plans to expand its Sh750 million cage-raising tilapia project in Lake Victoria amid growing demand for the white meat, regulatory filings show. The project, which will be implemented in the new concession areas around Sindhu, Homa Bay County, will expand the company’s existing sustainable tilapia cage…

  • The New Mission Critical Facilities: Bitcoin Mining Farms

    Life is all about evolution, change, adaptation, and the willingness to thrive. Throughout history, we have witnessed many changes that have forced societies to evolve, adapt, and grow. From the beginning of commerce to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, we have witnessed events that have changed the world. One of…

  • Rural councils compelled to approve more wind and solar farms under new planning rules

    Rural councils across England will be required to approve a significant increase in wind and solar farms under a new set of planning rules introduced by Housing Secretary Angela Rayner. The changes, outlined in draft planning documents from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, aim to accelerate the…

  • KenGen ordered to pay Sh10 million for farms destroyed by oil spill

    A court has ordered Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited (KenGen) to pay Sh10 million to some farmers whose farmlands along the Tana River were damaged by oil leakage from its power plant during the rainy season. The Garissa Environment and Land Court ordered Kingen, under the supervision of the Garissa…

  • The troll farms are winning and can’t be stopped

    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” This is the First Amendment…